From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 10:23:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0200237B4C5 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA55F2; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:26:13 -0700 Message-ID: <39EC8A5A.428298BA@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:20:26 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Inskip Thomas C." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need ver 4.4 installation help. References: <007e01c037ed$98128020$6886e6d8@genopre.net.gt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You didn't report what your error was. Everything that you listed is a normal informational message, not a warning or error. How far did you get in the installation, and what was on the last screen? What were the symptoms? Inquiring minds want to know. --- David ----- > "Inskip Thomas C." wrote: > > Hello: > > I am a UNIX novice! I tried to install FreeBSD 4.4. The > results hold some bugs... still. > > I purchased a DELL L556cx to operate FreeBSD. In > installation of the OS from CD-ROM, it found error. I > looked into the manuals and found not find either them or the > problem fix-it. > > I reset the BIOS to default. It made the three error > msgs on installation. As follows... > > BTX loader 100 BTX version 1.01 > > console: internal video/keyboard > > /stand/sysinstall running as init on VTY0 > > These error msgs appeared in light gray. The accepted > installations appeared in white text. > > ----------------------- > > A flash menu appeared with the notice > “Starting Emergency Holographic VTY4.” > It only appeared for an instant... > > ----------------------- > > In addition I received a notice that the video terminal in > application during installation was VTY1. As follows... > > “You may wish to scroll-lock through the debugging messages > on VTY1 with the scroll-lock feature.” > > What is wrong. How do I fix-it? Where is a > reference? > > Thank you for your time and assistance. > Tom > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message